Tremendous YC Application

Winter 2011Active

Tremendous went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2011 batch as a Fintech company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2011
Industry: FintechPayments
Team size: 150
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Nicolas BaumFounder/CEO

What Tremendous does

Tremendous is a payouts platform for businesses to send money and gift cards to anyone, anywhere. Used by 25k+ companies for one-time payments, including research compensation, marketing incentives, and employee recognition.

Tremendous's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tremendous, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tremendous

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

How businesses send money at scale. Fast, free, global.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We're building a payouts platform that lets businesses send money and gift cards to anyone worldwide, quickly and reliably. Companies use Tremendous to pay people for research, marketing incentives, and employee recognition. Our product handles everything from payment routing to compliance at scale.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York City, NY, and the company is based there and partially remote. After YC, we plan to remain headquartered in NYC with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

NYC has been where we built our initial product and customer base. It's a major business hub with a deep fintech ecosystem and talent pool, making it the right base to grow from while supporting remote work.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tremendous YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Tremendous's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Tremendous would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.